Outreach
I’ve always loved being on a stage and telling stories. As a researcher, this developed into a passion for science communication. Here is an overview of events I contributed to.
2024
RoboCup
During the 2024 edition of the RoboCup, a competition for autonomous robots, I co-hosted the livestream of the event.
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July 17 – July 21, 2024
Eindhoven, Netherlands
RoboSoft
Material intelligence through multifunctional structures: challenges in design and manufacturing (workshop)
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April 14 – April 17, 2024
San Diego, CA, US
Freiburg Rising Stars Academy
Bistable rotational elements for safer human-robot interaction (talk)
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March 11 – March 15, 2024
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
GRS/GRC Multifunctional materials & structures
Self-Healing Reconfigurable Material Structures for Soft Robotics (talk)
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January 27 – February 2, 2024
Ventura, CA, US
GRS/GRC Robotics
Chair of the Gordon Research Seminar Robotics
Magnetic self-healing sensors for soft robotics (poster)
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January 13-19, 2024
Ventura, CA, US
2023
Vlaamse PhD cup
Een zachte toekomst voor robots (A soft future for robots)
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September 27, 2023
Brussels, Belgium
Nerdland Festival
Guinness World Records: Longest line of assembled robots
Workshop where visitors could make their own robot
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May 27-28, 2023
Wachtebeke, Belgium
RoboSoft
Additive manufacturing and novel fabrication techniques for small-scale soft robots (workshop)
Reconfigurable, Multi-Material, Voxel-Based Soft Robots (poster, best paper award)
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April 3-7, 2023
Singapore, Singapore
VUB science show & I love Science festival
Workshop for children where they could make their own soft robotic finger.
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February 7, 2023
Brussels, Belgium
2022
GRS/GRC Robotics
Embedded Sensors for Self-Healing Soft Robots (talk)
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August 13-19, 2022
Ventura, CA, US
International conference on self-healing materials
From self-healing polymer to soft robot (talk)
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June 20, 2022
Milan, Italy
International Conference of the Polymer Processing Society
Processing of self-healing polymers for soft robots (poster)
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April 11-15, 2022
Fukuoka, Japan
2021
1st Winter school on smart materials for soft robotics
Building your own self-healing actuator (hands-on workshop)
Self-healing soft sensors (poster & best poster award)
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December 12-17, 2021
Cambridge, UK
Soapbox science
Moeten robots soms ook naar de dokter? (Do robots also need to go to the doctor?)
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June 26, 2021
Brussels, Belgium
2020
Wetenschapsbattle
Moeten robots soms ook naar de dokter? (Do robots also need to go to the doctor?)
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November 24, 2020
Mechelen, Belgium
Smart ITN training event
Processing techniques for soft robots (talk)
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October 20-23, 2020
online
2019
Homo Roboticus
Zelfherstellende zachte robots (Self-healing soft robots)
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June 6, 2019
Brugge, Belgium
Robosoft
A Multi-Material Self-Healing Soft Gripper (talk)
How can we manufacture self-healing soft robots? (poster)
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April 14-18, 2019
Seoul, South-Korea